I guess you can say I’ve had an awakening again to the fact that my foot is really injured. I’ve been kind of downplaying it, and ignoring it, and training anyway despite the way my foot feels. Its weird that I got a run yesterday, an actual GOOD run, and then today decide to take a few extra days off. I woke up this morning with the same pain between the two toes that I had all weekend, along with an extra shooting pain in the side of my foot (which didn’t exist last night when I went to sleep). I think my body is telling me that I have to stop for a bit, or i’m not going to make it.

I’ve realized that I’m pushing the training to run the Diamond run, which I should really be able to run without too much effort. I think my other goal was to build the base I need for the next training cycle, but I have finally realized, that if I’m doing ‘good’ runs now, instead of ‘great’ runs, its going to be another long training cycle for the Ocean Drive and NJ marathons in the spring. This reminds me of the hammy pain I had back before the Steamtown training. Overall, that did effect my training, I don’t want it to happen again. Its Tuesday, and I skipped the run today,and will probably skip again tomorrow and return on Thursday with some cross-training. I thought about it, and I really haven’t taken any time off since I ran the marathon. If you think about it, I crosstrained the Monday and Tuesday after the marathon, then ran again on Wednesday and Thursday, thats crazy.

I think that if I don’t take the time to heal my foot now, its only going to hurt me in the long run. I hope its nothing serious, but we’ll take some days off, ease back into the training slowly and see where we go. If it still bothers me after I do this, I think its time to see the doctor, maybe the foot doctor even since I don’t think the regular doctor will offer me much. Nothing personal against him, but he didn’t provide me any guidance for my Achilles besides the stuff I was already doing.

I imagine that in my running absence, I’ll keep up on the blog. I picked a few good days to take off since I have to work downtown both today and tomorrow, so it won’t be so painful not running. I’ll keep the blog up to date with the status, I hope to heal the next few days.